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No. 622.769. Patented Apr. ll, I899. D. W. IKELER'.

FASTENING DEVICE.

(Application filed m 19, 189B.)

(No Model.)

V V f W/7'NESSES INVENTOH WM By ATTORNEY! NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

DAVID WV. IKELER, OF NEVV-YORK, N. Y.

FASTENING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 622,769, dated April11, 1899.

Application filed May 19,1898. serial 681,162. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DAVID W. IKELER, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, (Brooklyn,) in the county of Kings and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in FasteningDevices, of which the following is a full and complete specification,such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

This invention relates to fastening devices for use in connection withcordvbinders; and the object thereof is to provide an improved device ofthis class which is simple in construction and operation and whichisparticularly adapted for use in tying or binding packages of variousforms; and with this and other objects in view the invention consists inthe device hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, ofwhich the accompanying drawings form a part, in which-- Figure 1 is aside view of a package in connection with which my improved fasteningdevice is employed, and Fig. 2 an end view thereof.

I11 the drawings forming part of this specification the separate partsof my improvement are designated by the same numerals of reference ineach of the views, and in the practice of my invention I provide afastening device which is composed of spring-wire provided at one endwith a ring or eye 5, ad jacent to which is a loop 6, which projects atan angle therefrom, and the part 7, between the loop 6 and the ring oreye 5, constitutes the shank of the fastening device and is integralwith one side of said loop, while the other side of said loop isprovided with or formed into a spiral spring-coil 8, consisting of onecomplete and one half coil, as clearly shown in the drawings, the end ofthe wire after forming the half 0011 being cut off and bent outwardly,as shown at 9.

In forming the loop 6 the sides thereof are brought approximatelytogether to form supplemental inwardly-directed loops 11, and inpractice one end of a binding-cord 10 is secured to the eye or ring 5,and the other end thereof after being passed around the parcel to'betied or bound is also passed around the inwardly-directed supplementalloop 11, adjacent to the ring or eye 5, and said cord is then passedthrough or between the springcoils 8 or between the half coil and thefull coil, as clearly shown in Fig. 1.

This device is simple in construction and operation and well adapted toaccomplish the result for which it is intended, and the end of thebinding-cord is securely held without tying, the spring action of thecoils 8 serving to securely hold the binding-cord after it has beenpassed around the supplemental loop 11.

Having fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. A fastening device composed of springwire which isformed into a loop, one side of said loop being projected at rightangles thereto and provided with a ring or eye, and the other side beingprovided with springcoils, substantially as shown and described.

2. A fastening device composed of a piece of spring-wire which is bentto form a loop, and the sides thereof being brought approximatelytogether to form inwardly-directed supplemental loops, one of said sidesbeing bent outwardly and provided with an eye or ring, and the otherbeing formed into springcoils, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 17th day of May,1898.

. DAVID W. IKELER.

Witnesses:

M. A. KNOWLES, FQA. STEWART.

